I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
“New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.”
“I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.”